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Given the quadratic equation below, determine which situation it could represent. x^2-4x=60A. Mr. Bass is 4 years older than his sister. The total of their ages is 60 years. B. A wall in Liza's bedroom has an area of 60 square feet. She covers 4 square feet of the wall with a poster. C. In a meeting room for a business event, there are 4 fewer chairs laid out in each row than the number of rows. The total number of chairs in the room is 60. D. On Tuesday, a packaging company packed 4 fewer boxes of cashews than they did on Monday. They packed a total of 60 boxes.

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Answer:C.  In a meeting room for a business event, there are 4 fewer chairs laid out in each row than the number of rows. The total number of chairs in the room is 60. Step-by-step explanation:To find the total number of chars, we multiply the number of rows by the number of chairs in each row.Let the number of rows be x.  There are 4 fewer chairs in each row than the number of rows; this gives us (x-4).  Together, this gives usx(x-4).We know there are 60 chairs; this gives usx(x-4) = 60Using the distributive property,x(x)-4(x) = 60x²-4x = 60